Anni - The Perfect Wisdom Web

a n n idescribed in an account of her childhood written for aschool class:When I was six, I entered the village school. I felt veryproud the first time I walked there with my slate, and Iliked going to school very much. During the three yearsI attended the village school I became very connected tothe village children. I wanted to be just like them in theway I dressed, the way I talked, and the expressions Iused. For this reason I also spoke the local dialect by preference.In summer I was very sad that I wasn’t allowed togo barefoot like the others, and I considered it a shockingdisgrace that I had to wear shoes and stockings.Anni left the village school when she was nine and beganattending the Keilhau boarding school, where she was theonly girl in her class.At first there were only four in my grade and from thebeginning we were like a band of comrades. So I graduallydrifted away from the village children, probably inpart because they left school earlier. Up until then, one ofthe village girls had still been my friend, but now I endedup playing only with boys. Until I was in seventh grade,I always wished I were a boy.Because I had no other girls to play with in the yearsbetween fourth and seventh grades, I found great pleasurein reading. I devoured any book I could get holdof and read each of my own books at least twenty times.I did not especially care for sentimental girls’ stories,6